As you likely recall, despite being much-hyped in advance, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford didn’t do that well at the U.S. box office. It got some critical attention; Brad Pitt’s portrayal of Jesse won him the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival and Casey Affleck won four supporting actor awards and was Oscar-nominated in that category for his portrayal of Ford....[Read More]

SynopsisLily (played to quirky perfection by Loren Horsley) is what you might call an outcast. She seems to have trouble relating to people, and as a result she is lonely and, by traditional standards, quite the oddball. She works a dead-end job at a fast food restaurant, where her co-workers clearly want nothing to do with her. The only joy in her life comes in the form of daily lunch visits from...[Read More]

With Steve Carell quickly catapulting from a correspondent on The Daily Show to an A-list celebrity over the past few years, it is refreshing to see him working just as quickly to expand his repertoire. We know that he can deliver dry and absurd humor hilariously, but, first through the indie surprise Little Miss Sunshine and now through Dan in Real Life, we are learning that Carell is more of an ...[Read More]

Charlton Heston and Vincent Price did a spectacular job as Robert Neville in the horror/suspense classic, I Am Legend.Based on a book, with the same name, the story revolves around a singleindividual who is believed to be the last 'human' being on the face ofthe earth. After a nasty virus mutates into something worse, spreads inNew York, Robert Neville sits back and watches the world crumble aroun...[Read More]

"The Invasion" is one part creepy, psychological thriller and second part white-knuckler action film. While some might debate which is better, the work as a whole is a pretty enjoyable ride.

The boys are back; if you liked 11 but cringed a bit over 12, you’ll be glad to know that this outing has the gang back in Vegas. (Personally, I’ve found that 12 has grown on me with repeated viewings, but even George Clooney said in an interview I read that the tag line for 13 should be “Better than Ocean’s 12.”)

If you’re a female, chances are pretty good you read at least on Nancy Drew mystery when you were growing up. The plucky Nancy, zipping around in her little coupe (a word I suspect few of us knew how to pronounce then), helped in her sleuthing by her pals Bess and George and her beau Ned Nickerson, coming home to housekeeper Hannah Gruen’s wonderful cooking and D.A. dad Carson Drew’s understanding...[Read More]

Just in time for the 2008 Oscars, here comes Michael Clayton on DVD. In case you haven’t heard, this film received seven nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (George Clooney), Best Supporting Actor (Tom Wilkinson), Best Supporting Actress (Tilda Swinton), Best Director (Tony Gilroy), Best Original Score and Best Original Screenplay (Gilroy).

Introducing the Dwights is a tour de force for Brenda Blethyn, and boy, does she eat it up and spit it out. She plays Jean, the matriarch, lunchroom cook by day, stand-up comedienne by night. We quickly come to realize two things about Jean: (1) she was clearly pretty good (and popular) once, but the schtick is getting old; (2) she’s nowhere near ready to admit that, or to even consider sharing th...[Read More]

I write to laud Hot Fuzz, a wonderfully enjoyable action comedy that unabashedly steals from/honors just about every notable action/cop/buddy movie that’s come before it. And I know that because several of the special features go to great pains to point out just which parts of Hot Fuzz came from just which previous films.

I wasn’t too sure about this film when I sat down to watch it; I recalled it had gotten little attention in its theatrical release, and it seemed like a pretty goofy idea – a farmer who builds a rocket in his barn? Sure.